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Description: | Early Medieval cast copper-alloy strap end of Thomas Class B, Type 2 (with Trewhiddle style decoration). It tapers gradually and continuously form the attachement end to the terminal. The attachment end is wedge-shaped and split. It is intact but slightly bent. In each corner is a rivet hole and the top edge is shaped around them. The front plate is decorated at this end with a curved/coiled incised motif within a pair of longitudinal lines that curve in around the attachment holes to meet at the centre. It is perhaps a degraded coiled beast (cf. Thomas 2003, 5; ref. 14). The base of the attachment end is marked on the front by a pair of transverse raised ribs. Beyond, the strap-end is plain apart from a faint pair of raised transverse ribs half way down, before terminating in a moulded animal-head terminal. Above the zoomorphic terminal is another pair of faint lines. The terminal features prominant oval ears and a Y-shaped incision below that suggests eyes and a snout and ends in a squared off nose. In cross-section the strap end is sub rectangular and flat. The lower surface is covered in curious transverse ridges that are presumably part of the casting process not eradicated during finishing. The object is a red/brown colour, in places covered in light green corrosion product. It is 48.6mm long, 9.0mm wide, 1.8mm thick and weighs 3.37 grams.
Original Image | Publisher: | http://finds.org.uk | Source: | Portable Antiquities | Identifier: | http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/r... | Go to resource |
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